Bernhard Weiss

Bernhard Weiss (20 June 1827 – 14 January 1918) was a German Protestant New Testament scholar.

After studying theology at the University of Königsberg (Albertina), Halle and Berlin, he became professor extraordinarius at Königsberg in 1852, and afterwards professor ordinarius at Kiel and Berlin.

In 1880 he was made superior consistorial councillor of the Evangelical State Church of Prussia's older Provinces.

[1] An opponent of the Tübingen School, he published a number of important works, which became well known to students in Great Britain and America.

Weiss also established a new text of the Greek New Testament, which was utilized by Eberhard Nestle for his Novum Testamentum Graece.